Will this football club’s special Remembrance kit arrive in time for kick-off?

A football club chairman and a businessman face a race across the Midlands this morning in order to get their team kitted out in a strip specially designed for Remembrance weekend. When Norton Wanderers play Whittington FC in the Staffs Vase today, they hope to be wearing an evocative kit featuring a poppy and silhouettes of soldiers. It was designed by club chairman Leigh Robinson to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Businessman Tom Quinn, who runs sportswear supplier Club Kit Direct, based at Loomer Road, Chesterton, has paid for the kits and arranged for them to be made abroad and shipped back to the UK in time for the game. However, despite receiving a guarantee that the kits would arrive earlier this week, yesterday they were still being flown to North Staffordshire – from Pakistan via Istanbul. Tom and Leigh spent most of yesterday frantically ringing round to find out where the plane carrying the shirts would land, so they could arrange to collect them directly from the airport and take them to Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy, where Norton Wanderers are due to kick off at 2pm. Tom, aged 25, of May Bank, said: “We think we have tracked the plane down. We are hopefully going to go to Birmingham this morning to see if we can get hold of them. “We’ve spoken to the airport and we should be able to get them, but it’s not certain yet. “I can imagine… [Read full story]